The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1887-09-22
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I1aS anyDouy seen Gne new comet.
See advertisement, Caution" refer
ing to note.
4 special communication of Asheville
Lodge Z. D. F. & A. NJ will be held this
evening at 8 O'Clock. Work in the F. c.
Degree. By order of the W.: NJ.
Mr.. Sumner has ordered machinery
for sausage grinding on large scale.
His sausages are so good, that by his old
process, he could not meet the demand.
Court will be held at the term of
Jackson Court, which begins next-M
day, in the new Court House. The
building is not quite finished, but enough
SO for present court uses.
Monday night at late hour Yard
Master Hall had the fore finger of his
right hand crushed while trying to stop
a moving car. The finger was subsequ-
emily amputated by DR.. Watson.
Mr.. C. c.. Miller, practical miller and
mill-wright, will be in Asheville on
Saturday next, the day of the grand bar
becue, and desires to meet the mill own
Grs of the county on that occasion. At
Will Blair is having run of custom,
and is hardly allowed 10 keep a full
stock, so rapidly is his supply reduced.
And the Asheville Furniture Factory,
from which he largely draws, is oyerrun
with orders.
Mr.. l., J. Smith, of Jackson was in the
city yesterday. He is largely engaged,
in his county, in mercantile business;
and he informs us that lie has consolida-
ted all tie interests of his stores at East
La Porte and Webster at Sylvia.
Mr.. Robert Connolly, q Burke county
gentleman, but now living in Stockton,
California, called on Us yesterday. He
is on his way to visit his old home after
an absence Of eight years. He speaks
business is in better shape, and prosper
itY more generally diffused than for
years. Eastern capital is finding employ.
ment, and all kinds of business are on a
flourishing basis.
Mr.. J. R. Cole brought us Yesterday
samples of the Newport, Tenn, tobacco,
the reception of which at the Buncombe
Warehouse we note elsewhere. The
color is very good, though the sample is
little damaged. Asheville is becoming
the market for East Tennessee tobacco,
the receipts here last season showing a
marked increase. The conditions Of that
section in soil and climate are not dis
similar to those of Madison county in
this State and the prospect is good for
increased area of culture by our Tennes-
see friends. Having found a market
here, close and convenient, they will
keep On this route.
Our North Carolina cities and towns
have made remarkable progress In water
supplies within the past few years. Wiz
mington, Charlotte, Raleigh, Winston
Durham and AsheVille are ali provided
with systems more or less complete, and
supply more or less abundant; and Colds.
boro and perhaps some other towns are
making provision for similar work
The Oldest water works in the State
that have been in Use continuously are
| those of Fayetteville. They date from
1916 or 1917. The town is situated on a
plain about 80 feet above the level of the
Cape Rear river, and is margined on the
north and west by bold sand hills rising
from Is to 80 feet above the town. On
the east face of the west hills copiouI
springs of pure cold water burst out, and
never diminish in volume. These are re-
tanned in large reservoirs, originally
perhaps nov, encased in timber. The
water from these is conducted into and
distributed through the town in pine logl
bored through; and for seventy year,
have furnished an unvalying supply O.
good drinking water. Down the princi-
pal street they are made available fol
fire uses by passing through large wooder
cisterns.
somewhat similar, using Rocky Branch
as the source of supply; but it was :
short lived enterprise.